Every so often, I run into a wall when it comes to figuring out colour combinations on a particular job. Every blue feels like the blue that everyone is using, every orange starts to look like 50m 100y, maybe a little darker, a little lighter, but still orange and no one’s going to be able to tell the difference. I throw my arms up, decide I’m crap at this kind of work and mumble a little under my breath about how life should be simpler.

Then I troll around the web, hoping someone’s inspired combination on this site or that will help me jump start my eyes beyond the greys that I often default to when struggling.

Eventually, I land up at COLOURlovers, a site that I must have come across during one of my struggles, and flick through what people have put together to make life easier for losers like me.

Now, I (we all) have another option that seems even nicer — Kuler from Adobe Labs. I love how the big blocks of colour are the first thing you see. I love how, when you rollover the smaller palettes below, they expand horizontally to give you a better idea of each rectangle.

Perhaps the coolest part of it is the integration with the CS2 suite. I haven’t yet tried it out, but you can download colour themes to use with any of the CS2 apps.

I don’t see myself solely using Kuler, because COLOURlovers has a lot to offer as well, but it’ll probably jump to the top of my list, for right now at least.

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